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the BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND ADVANCE OF THE TANKS [Main]

BATTLE OF THE ANCRE [alternative]

(Reel 1) Material from various phases of the Somme offensive without regard for logical or chronological continuity. The film opens with the unloading of supply trains, and soldiers on the march to the battlefield, horses being used to carry 18-pounder shells to the guns in saddle-panniers as the mud is impassable for wheeled transport, and the first appearance of the tanks. Includes brief footage…

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Contributors

  • British Topical Committee for War Films

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • British Army, Div 16 (?)
  • British Army, Div 29
  • British Army, Div 63
  • British Army, Royal Naval Div, Bn Howe
  • British Army, Royal Naval Div, Bn Hawke
  • Royal Navy, Royal Naval Div, Bn Howe
  • Royal Navy, Royal Naval Div, Bn Hawke
  • Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force, 1st Division
  • Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Division
  • …
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film